As I said on the Daily Thread, I’m teaching Revelation tomorrow. Problem is, I have all Seven Churches of Asia in one lesson. I’ve thought a bit about how I’m going to handle that, but it still won’t be easy.
I mentioned some time ago that Elvera was diagnosed in January with “Mild cognitive impairment”.
Thursday afternoon, she left to go the Harris-Teeter, a large local grocery chain. As she traveled, I noticed that she was going up Washington St. (I was following her on the iPhone. That’s one of the reasons we have them.) So I called her. By the time she answered she was in a parking lot at the church. She had forgotten where she was going. We agreed that she should just come home.
Yesterday, after Lions, she made a successful shopping trip to Harris-Teeter. Her usual routing. She drives over there, has a sundae and coffee in a McDonalds in the same shopping center, then does her shopping. We’ve agreed that she doesn’t go somewhere unless I’m available to monitor her movements.
It isn’t the ideal system, but it works. ,
😦 To Chas’ post about Elvera.
😉 That there is a way to help him monitor so that she can still have independence.
Chas, I pray that you, Chuck, and the rest of the family can find some humor in this. That sounds harsh doesn’t it? I don’t mean it that way. It’s just that I have always thought if I could find at least of shred of humor I could survive.
Ditto Kim’s rant and rave in her first paragraph at 9:27. Having a system like that, Chas, where you can track Elvera’s travels is one of the blessings of modern technology.
Chas, teaching on the Seven Churches in one lesson sounds like a lot to me, but I’m sure you’ll find a way to make it doable. 🙂
When I teach piano, in order not to run beyond the 30-minute lesson time, which can happen very easily with me, I mentally divide up the lesson into parts — allowing about half the time to hear the music the student prepared, and the other half for introducing the new lesson. That’s for my beginning students, as most of the time, their music is simple enough to accomplish in one week.
With more advanced students, playing more complex music that often takes weeks to polish, I’ll simply divide up the 30 minutes by the number of pieces they’ll play for me. So if one is assigned five pieces, then I allot about six minutes per piece. (Or five, and allow the extra five minutes as margin, if one piece in particular needs a little more time, or to allow a little extra time for friendly banter and such about the student’s other activities/interests, in general. I like to remember that I am, first and foremost, teaching people — the music is secondary.) 🙂
Anyway, I mention that, Chas, to say maybe you could (or already have?) divide the number of minutes of your class period by, say, eight, with the answer being how many minutes you allot to each church, with the remaining, “eighth section”, being the extra time for introductory and concluding remarks? Or divided by ten, so that there are more extra minutes for class discussion. For example, a 60-minute class divided into 10 parts would yield 6 minutes per church, totaling 42 minutes, and the remaining 18 minutes could be for discussion.
Something like that. I’m sure you’ve got strategies that will work well. 🙂 Blessings to you as you teach tomorrow.
I’m glad you’re using technology, Chas. Be careful, and for your family, try not to wear yourself out.
I spent two weekends ago with our dear spiritual mentors on their beautiful 5 acres in southeastern CT. They’re 86 and 87. L, at 86, has advanced Parkinsons. R, a retired Navy captain who performed all sorts of magic for the good of his country during his career, is her principle caregiver.
I’m impressed by his cooking, his care for L, his devotion and his willingness to give up most of his life to care for her–he’s obviously committed to his vows.
But my weekend was shared with his visiting daughter, granddaughter and son. We all stepped in to help with a myriad of things, and had more than one muttered conversation about what all this work was doing to R.
One of the tasks was to put into place a backup generator. They can’t afford to lose heat in a NE winter like last year. In fact, R lost 19 needed pounds last winter hauling in wood for the fire. Not good.
The concern for us younger ones is while we love the ailing parent, we’re also worried about the other one. This is just a plea to watch out for yourself–for the good of your spouse and your regular family. Please, ask for and get help.
Our pastor’s father was his wife’s principle caregiver. She’s been at death’s door several times. To everyone’s shock, the father died on Christmas Eve. Everything has gone downhill and into chaos since. The drain on everyone is tremendous. And mom lives on, visited often by children and seemingly happy in a nursing home. She thinks the father has merely stepped out. Misses him when she remembers but mostly isn’t affected by his death.
One can’t help but wonder if dad would still be there–in the midst of his family–if he hadn’t worn himself out for a dementia patient who doesn’t even realize he’s gone. Would it have been better to have put her in a nursing home a year ago if it meant he’d still be alive?
We can’t really ask these questions–God ordains the days of our life–but for the adult children watching and worrying, particularly from afar, it’s a question that bears asking and that I hope I never have to ask myself.
I will say, however, that I’m thankful R and L have kids who love them and care for them, and the same for you two.
😦 Our first batch of LITs (leaders-in-training) are finished their 3 weeks 🙂 Such amazing young people. They will be back next year as either volunteers or junior cabin leaders!
🙂 Our 2 nieces (22 and 33) are visiting this weekend – they are such fun. We’re going to Waskesiu for lunch and then to the new playground to climb on the bear statues!
🙂 Daughter snuck home last night, too!
🙂 Introduced them all to chicken, bacon, ranch pizza – so yummy!
😦 Four very itchy mosquito bites on the back of my knee – ugh.
😦 Husband has not been feeling well at all since his allergy attack last week.
🙂 Both nieces love Miss Bosley – they think she’s adorable!
🙂 One big advantage to public school is there a very loose dress code. The kids can pretty much wear almost anything they want. (with the possible exception of a Confederate flag) Instead of the usual horrible ordeal that is shopping for school clothes, this year I actually got a “Thank you Mommy.” for the six benign tee shirts and four pair of over sized shorts. I have another month or so before I have to deal with jeans.
Beloved step mom stopped driving when she headed out to a hair appointment and ended up out at the farm twenty miles away. Her family stepped in. But daughter is there to help and my dad adores his wife so, though she may ask the same question a number of times in an hour, she is well cared for and has as much independence as can be and can live in their home still.
Chas, Michelle made some very good points. I know that the two of you have plans to move to assisted living if something happens to one of you. You may end up considering that soon, especially if they have specialized care that Elvera could move into if necessary, but it would also give you help in the meantime.
The one here that Mr. and Mrs. Brown live in very nice. They have an oversized master suite, a living room and a small kitchenette.
Kim, We will stay here until I can’t handle it anymore. We’re afraid that if we move to Greensboro now, we will be caught up in the commotion that goes on there. It’s too much for us.
And we are established here.
You know what I mean.
But we won’t be like my parents were, or some of our neighbors.
😦 On a Saturday in the summertime, there isn’t a time when you don’t hear a lawn mower or chain saw somewhere.
It’s a chainsaw now. You can tell by the low rumble, then sudden high whine when the chain starts.
My lawnmowers have not moved in over a month. The grass is dormant for the summer. Not even the weed eaters, mechanical, not goat, have moved. It is so dry not even the weeds are growing. But I am watering trees and shrubs to get them through.
According to son, the harvest is quite low. The seeds are quite small on the wheat, though lots grew.
Chas I meant to say “sooner rather than later” not soon. I also think it is important to stay in familiar surroundings. Too much change can cause even more confusion.
😦 another gray, rainy day, wondering if there was enough sun to heat the water for a shower. I do think that we have a backup heater, but I have only used it once. Basically the solar panel heats the water.
😦 the airlock in the kitchen sink is still not letting any hot water come through.
🙂 🙂 Water tanks are full as we have had lots of rain this week, even a night time gully washer
🙂 We had the reunion for my husband’s first wife’s family this afternoon–which is always just a little bit odd for me to anticipate, but nearly always good when we actually get there. A lot of people know me by name and greet me with a hug. And this year they asked us to bring wedding photos and/or photos of family. Well, my husband’s first wife was the person related to this group by blood . . . so wouldn’t they care more about their wedding photos (his and hers) than ours (his and mine)? But mine are the ones I have easy access to, and besides I had made a photo book a few months ago that covers our first three years as a family (starting with our courtship and wedding, but including family gatherings–all sides of the family–and the girls’ graduations, and so forth). So I took that, and several people looked at it.
🙂 or 😦 My husband tends to forget he isn’t 21 anymore, and he determines ahead of time not to participate in any of the outside games . . . but then we get there, and he plays, and he’s sore for half a week afterward. Today it was whiffleball, and while he wasn’t exactly running all over the outfield, he did end up on the ground a couple of times (including intentionally falling down to avoid a ball heading his way as he was coming in to home).
🙂 I had some excellent work connections this week. It has been a bad few years for freelance, but I think I am “in the right place at the right time” now, basically with an established reputation as the industry does a major shift, so I’m getting a lot of word-of-mouth referrals that are making up for some of the changes.
Chas, you might want to check into whether they have a waiting list, and consider getting on it if they do. I hear sometimes from friends who are ready to head into such situations and find out to their dismay that the waiting list is a year or more.
🙂 A good week off, filled with outings and spending time with friends (and a cousin) I normally don’t get to see all that often due to work schedules and distance.
😦 It’s back to work on Monday for me with news that one of our younger reporters landed a job with a local private school and will be leaving. Good move for her, print journalism is just hitting bottom anymore with no solutions in sight. Almost anything else will provide more money, opportunity and future right now.
😦 Hot weather. Summer. Sorry summer fans, this is just not my favorite season. 😦 😦 😦 And it’s not even August yet. I’m over it already.
😦 I complain too much.
🙂 God’s goodness to me. As tired as I was after all the back-and-forth work needed for the Walmart return of that lampshade (I was over my earlier crankiness by then), I found myself thanking Him on the drive home for providing me with such a good, reliable car all these years that can be used to help others.
Now that I have cleaned her out I can’t fill her up
this morning I cooked breakfast sausage form the tube all crumbled up then added a jar of old English cheese spread and served it on English muffins. Talk about fattening! I at one. BG and Mr P ate 2. She can afford it at 5’5″ and 110# I on the other hand cannot
😦 🙂 Forrest is excited about starting kindergarten in a little over a month (August 27). I’m not ready for him to go to school, & I wish he wasn’t going to public school. But on the other hand, a break from the many hours of babysitting I do will be appreciated, & it will probably be good for him in many ways. (And I’ll still be doing plenty of babysitting.)
Here’s a Facebook exchange between Emily & I last night that I want to share, because I thought it was cute. (There were a couple other comments, as well, but I’m not including those.)
The original post, by Emily: “Only one month and a couple days before Forrest starts kindergarten… Kinda freaking me out.”
The comments:
Me : Me, too!
Emily: He should be in bed, but he’s walking around the house collecting school supplies. “I’ll need a pencil… check! …How many papers will I need?” Just get two. “I’ll bring three in case I rip one.”
So he apparently got this thing from me where he needs to plan ahead and create a list to be prepared for something he’s excited about!
Me: Love that kid! (I’ve heard him walking around. I hope he sleeps late tomorrow morning.)
I’m glad he’s looking forward to going to school.
Emily: “Do I need pipe cleaners? Do I need those for tingerdarden?”
Me: I am silently squealing at his cuteness. 🙂
Emily: He’s now selecting one sheet of each color of construction paper.
One thing that helped Forrest get excited about going to school was when he found out he doesn’t have to sleep overnight there, too.
😦 Towels. From last Monday (less than two weeks ago) to today, I have washed five loads of towels, and there is still a handful in the laundry basket in the utility room. I wash more towels as a married woman than I washed laundry as a single! (The girls wash their own clothes, except for towels, so that’s a big part of it.)
🙂 Younger daughter is playing the piano while older daughter and boyfriend listen and talk in the same room with her. Misten is out there too. It’s a huge blessing to live in a peaceful home where people like being together.
🙂 Everyone does like the photos I took of husband dropping to the ground and then crawling “home” while the women who were observing can be seen laughing in the background.
🙂 My husband told me that he hasn’t needed anyone to wash grass stains out of his clothes for more than 40 years.
Plumbing: I still have the airlock in the kitchen sink so no hot water there.
However, I realized if i might have a plumber come, what else should I have him do.??
I have always wanted a double sink, so I think that I will measure and see if one will fit. Plus I have been waiting to move my washing machine into the entryway, just outside the front door with still an outside door there. and I have needed a new washer on the bathroom cold water tap for several years. I have no idea if our plumbers have the time for all this or what it would cost, but it is wonderful to think of getting these things done.
Do you suppose I would have to clean out under the kitchen sink if they were coming to replace it???? 🙂 😦
Um, yes on the sink. Sometimes the pipes need adjusting.
🙂 Lovely day for us.
:-)Daughter is home for a couple days to celebrate her birthday. Finally went to bed after being up 29 straight hours. Night shift isn’t a good fit for her.
🙂 she received a mom-crying letter of recommendation for med school. After a paragraph talking about how brilliant she was, the professor wrote two paragraphs praising her character.
Parenting doesn’t come more blessed than that.
😦 Stargazer still getting lots of rejections. We’re just in from a dinner (discussing CR’s mission trip to Nicaragua in 10 days, another reason she’s here) and I got three leads on work for him.
The kids really should remember folks at church love them and are willing to help . . .
The SS lesson didn’t go well today. Too many topics in one lesson.
I did close with this, which might be good for all of us to understand.
“Bottom line: I don’t claim to understand the book of Revelation. But I do know what it’s about. It gives closure. We have 65 books that tell us what God’s plan for us is, but none of them give closure until we come here. This book explains what Paul meant in Ephesians 1:9-10.
Here, Paul explains the Book of Revelation in two verses. “.
Sorry to hear about the loss, Kare. It is frustrating to put in all of that work and then watch it wiped out in a single hail storm. For me, it is chickens and turkeys and guineas. I did not even put in a garden this year. A few tomatoes, a bit of corn, some peppers, a handful of herbs. The vermin have taken care of just about all of it. Cats might consider catching mice and voles and gophers rather than baby birds. But then, we participate in our own demise. The rattler had two mice in its stomach.
I was often worried about my mother driving places. She was lost once, when there was a detour, but she always made it home. She also only drove to places that were very familiar. Still, it is worrying. That is one reason I am glad she no longer drives.
We did worry when my dad died and she moved to my brother’s house, that she may become even more confused. That did not happen, however. She seems better than she had for years. I think there was a lot of worry taken off her shoulder’s.
Kathaleena thank you for sharing that. I learned a lot from my stepmother when my father was dying. They had separated but had never filed for divorce. Once they were in different houses they started dating again. She could have walked away but she stepped back in and took care of him. She sheltered me and prepared me from and for what was coming.
I have since said that if anything ever happened to my ex husband, I would take care of him to keep BG from having to do it.
Yes, there are many hard decisions in life.
Kim – Believe it or not, it may be more of a blessing to have BG help in that situation, as much as she is able. She will learn & grow from it, & maybe even learn to trust God in a deeper way through it. And she will have nothing to regret when it is over. (But may this not happen for many, many years yet.)
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As I said on the Daily Thread, I’m teaching Revelation tomorrow. Problem is, I have all Seven Churches of Asia in one lesson. I’ve thought a bit about how I’m going to handle that, but it still won’t be easy.
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I mentioned some time ago that Elvera was diagnosed in January with “Mild cognitive impairment”.
Thursday afternoon, she left to go the Harris-Teeter, a large local grocery chain. As she traveled, I noticed that she was going up Washington St. (I was following her on the iPhone. That’s one of the reasons we have them.) So I called her. By the time she answered she was in a parking lot at the church. She had forgotten where she was going. We agreed that she should just come home.
Yesterday, after Lions, she made a successful shopping trip to Harris-Teeter. Her usual routing. She drives over there, has a sundae and coffee in a McDonalds in the same shopping center, then does her shopping. We’ve agreed that she doesn’t go somewhere unless I’m available to monitor her movements.
It isn’t the ideal system, but it works. ,
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😦 To Chas’ post about Elvera.
😉 That there is a way to help him monitor so that she can still have independence.
Chas, I pray that you, Chuck, and the rest of the family can find some humor in this. That sounds harsh doesn’t it? I don’t mean it that way. It’s just that I have always thought if I could find at least of shred of humor I could survive.
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Ditto Kim’s rant and rave in her first paragraph at 9:27. Having a system like that, Chas, where you can track Elvera’s travels is one of the blessings of modern technology.
Chas, teaching on the Seven Churches in one lesson sounds like a lot to me, but I’m sure you’ll find a way to make it doable. 🙂
When I teach piano, in order not to run beyond the 30-minute lesson time, which can happen very easily with me, I mentally divide up the lesson into parts — allowing about half the time to hear the music the student prepared, and the other half for introducing the new lesson. That’s for my beginning students, as most of the time, their music is simple enough to accomplish in one week.
With more advanced students, playing more complex music that often takes weeks to polish, I’ll simply divide up the 30 minutes by the number of pieces they’ll play for me. So if one is assigned five pieces, then I allot about six minutes per piece. (Or five, and allow the extra five minutes as margin, if one piece in particular needs a little more time, or to allow a little extra time for friendly banter and such about the student’s other activities/interests, in general. I like to remember that I am, first and foremost, teaching people — the music is secondary.) 🙂
Anyway, I mention that, Chas, to say maybe you could (or already have?) divide the number of minutes of your class period by, say, eight, with the answer being how many minutes you allot to each church, with the remaining, “eighth section”, being the extra time for introductory and concluding remarks? Or divided by ten, so that there are more extra minutes for class discussion. For example, a 60-minute class divided into 10 parts would yield 6 minutes per church, totaling 42 minutes, and the remaining 18 minutes could be for discussion.
Something like that. I’m sure you’ve got strategies that will work well. 🙂 Blessings to you as you teach tomorrow.
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I’m glad you’re using technology, Chas. Be careful, and for your family, try not to wear yourself out.
I spent two weekends ago with our dear spiritual mentors on their beautiful 5 acres in southeastern CT. They’re 86 and 87. L, at 86, has advanced Parkinsons. R, a retired Navy captain who performed all sorts of magic for the good of his country during his career, is her principle caregiver.
I’m impressed by his cooking, his care for L, his devotion and his willingness to give up most of his life to care for her–he’s obviously committed to his vows.
But my weekend was shared with his visiting daughter, granddaughter and son. We all stepped in to help with a myriad of things, and had more than one muttered conversation about what all this work was doing to R.
One of the tasks was to put into place a backup generator. They can’t afford to lose heat in a NE winter like last year. In fact, R lost 19 needed pounds last winter hauling in wood for the fire. Not good.
The concern for us younger ones is while we love the ailing parent, we’re also worried about the other one. This is just a plea to watch out for yourself–for the good of your spouse and your regular family. Please, ask for and get help.
Our pastor’s father was his wife’s principle caregiver. She’s been at death’s door several times. To everyone’s shock, the father died on Christmas Eve. Everything has gone downhill and into chaos since. The drain on everyone is tremendous. And mom lives on, visited often by children and seemingly happy in a nursing home. She thinks the father has merely stepped out. Misses him when she remembers but mostly isn’t affected by his death.
One can’t help but wonder if dad would still be there–in the midst of his family–if he hadn’t worn himself out for a dementia patient who doesn’t even realize he’s gone. Would it have been better to have put her in a nursing home a year ago if it meant he’d still be alive?
We can’t really ask these questions–God ordains the days of our life–but for the adult children watching and worrying, particularly from afar, it’s a question that bears asking and that I hope I never have to ask myself.
I will say, however, that I’m thankful R and L have kids who love them and care for them, and the same for you two.
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🙂 Another great week of camp
😦 Our first batch of LITs (leaders-in-training) are finished their 3 weeks 🙂 Such amazing young people. They will be back next year as either volunteers or junior cabin leaders!
🙂 Our 2 nieces (22 and 33) are visiting this weekend – they are such fun. We’re going to Waskesiu for lunch and then to the new playground to climb on the bear statues!
🙂 Daughter snuck home last night, too!
🙂 Introduced them all to chicken, bacon, ranch pizza – so yummy!
😦 Four very itchy mosquito bites on the back of my knee – ugh.
😦 Husband has not been feeling well at all since his allergy attack last week.
🙂 Both nieces love Miss Bosley – they think she’s adorable!
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🙂 One big advantage to public school is there a very loose dress code. The kids can pretty much wear almost anything they want. (with the possible exception of a Confederate flag) Instead of the usual horrible ordeal that is shopping for school clothes, this year I actually got a “Thank you Mommy.” for the six benign tee shirts and four pair of over sized shorts. I have another month or so before I have to deal with jeans.
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Beloved step mom stopped driving when she headed out to a hair appointment and ended up out at the farm twenty miles away. Her family stepped in. But daughter is there to help and my dad adores his wife so, though she may ask the same question a number of times in an hour, she is well cared for and has as much independence as can be and can live in their home still.
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Looks like rattle snake for dinner. Again.
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Tastes like chicken
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Chas, Michelle made some very good points. I know that the two of you have plans to move to assisted living if something happens to one of you. You may end up considering that soon, especially if they have specialized care that Elvera could move into if necessary, but it would also give you help in the meantime.
The one here that Mr. and Mrs. Brown live in very nice. They have an oversized master suite, a living room and a small kitchenette.
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Kim, We will stay here until I can’t handle it anymore. We’re afraid that if we move to Greensboro now, we will be caught up in the commotion that goes on there. It’s too much for us.
And we are established here.
You know what I mean.
But we won’t be like my parents were, or some of our neighbors.
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😦 On a Saturday in the summertime, there isn’t a time when you don’t hear a lawn mower or chain saw somewhere.
It’s a chainsaw now. You can tell by the low rumble, then sudden high whine when the chain starts.
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My lawnmowers have not moved in over a month. The grass is dormant for the summer. Not even the weed eaters, mechanical, not goat, have moved. It is so dry not even the weeds are growing. But I am watering trees and shrubs to get them through.
According to son, the harvest is quite low. The seeds are quite small on the wheat, though lots grew.
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Chas I meant to say “sooner rather than later” not soon. I also think it is important to stay in familiar surroundings. Too much change can cause even more confusion.
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😦 another gray, rainy day, wondering if there was enough sun to heat the water for a shower. I do think that we have a backup heater, but I have only used it once. Basically the solar panel heats the water.
😦 the airlock in the kitchen sink is still not letting any hot water come through.
🙂 🙂 Water tanks are full as we have had lots of rain this week, even a night time gully washer
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🙂 We had the reunion for my husband’s first wife’s family this afternoon–which is always just a little bit odd for me to anticipate, but nearly always good when we actually get there. A lot of people know me by name and greet me with a hug. And this year they asked us to bring wedding photos and/or photos of family. Well, my husband’s first wife was the person related to this group by blood . . . so wouldn’t they care more about their wedding photos (his and hers) than ours (his and mine)? But mine are the ones I have easy access to, and besides I had made a photo book a few months ago that covers our first three years as a family (starting with our courtship and wedding, but including family gatherings–all sides of the family–and the girls’ graduations, and so forth). So I took that, and several people looked at it.
🙂 or 😦 My husband tends to forget he isn’t 21 anymore, and he determines ahead of time not to participate in any of the outside games . . . but then we get there, and he plays, and he’s sore for half a week afterward. Today it was whiffleball, and while he wasn’t exactly running all over the outfield, he did end up on the ground a couple of times (including intentionally falling down to avoid a ball heading his way as he was coming in to home).
🙂 I had some excellent work connections this week. It has been a bad few years for freelance, but I think I am “in the right place at the right time” now, basically with an established reputation as the industry does a major shift, so I’m getting a lot of word-of-mouth referrals that are making up for some of the changes.
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Chas, you might want to check into whether they have a waiting list, and consider getting on it if they do. I hear sometimes from friends who are ready to head into such situations and find out to their dismay that the waiting list is a year or more.
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🙂 hot water!
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🙂 A good week off, filled with outings and spending time with friends (and a cousin) I normally don’t get to see all that often due to work schedules and distance.
😦 It’s back to work on Monday for me with news that one of our younger reporters landed a job with a local private school and will be leaving. Good move for her, print journalism is just hitting bottom anymore with no solutions in sight. Almost anything else will provide more money, opportunity and future right now.
😦 Hot weather. Summer. Sorry summer fans, this is just not my favorite season. 😦 😦 😦 And it’s not even August yet. I’m over it already.
😦 I complain too much.
🙂 God’s goodness to me. As tired as I was after all the back-and-forth work needed for the Walmart return of that lampshade (I was over my earlier crankiness by then), I found myself thanking Him on the drive home for providing me with such a good, reliable car all these years that can be used to help others.
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🙂 And my shower drains so nicely still
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Now that I have cleaned her out I can’t fill her up
this morning I cooked breakfast sausage form the tube all crumbled up then added a jar of old English cheese spread and served it on English muffins. Talk about fattening! I at one. BG and Mr P ate 2. She can afford it at 5’5″ and 110# I on the other hand cannot
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Did Donna ever get a shower? I know they are trying to conserve water, but really….
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😦 🙂 Forrest is excited about starting kindergarten in a little over a month (August 27). I’m not ready for him to go to school, & I wish he wasn’t going to public school. But on the other hand, a break from the many hours of babysitting I do will be appreciated, & it will probably be good for him in many ways. (And I’ll still be doing plenty of babysitting.)
Here’s a Facebook exchange between Emily & I last night that I want to share, because I thought it was cute. (There were a couple other comments, as well, but I’m not including those.)
The original post, by Emily: “Only one month and a couple days before Forrest starts kindergarten… Kinda freaking me out.”
The comments:
Me : Me, too!
Emily: He should be in bed, but he’s walking around the house collecting school supplies. “I’ll need a pencil… check! …How many papers will I need?” Just get two. “I’ll bring three in case I rip one.”
So he apparently got this thing from me where he needs to plan ahead and create a list to be prepared for something he’s excited about!
Me: Love that kid! (I’ve heard him walking around. I hope he sleeps late tomorrow morning.)
I’m glad he’s looking forward to going to school.
Emily: “Do I need pipe cleaners? Do I need those for tingerdarden?”
Me: I am silently squealing at his cuteness. 🙂
Emily: He’s now selecting one sheet of each color of construction paper.
One thing that helped Forrest get excited about going to school was when he found out he doesn’t have to sleep overnight there, too.
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😦 Towels. From last Monday (less than two weeks ago) to today, I have washed five loads of towels, and there is still a handful in the laundry basket in the utility room. I wash more towels as a married woman than I washed laundry as a single! (The girls wash their own clothes, except for towels, so that’s a big part of it.)
🙂 Younger daughter is playing the piano while older daughter and boyfriend listen and talk in the same room with her. Misten is out there too. It’s a huge blessing to live in a peaceful home where people like being together.
🙂 Everyone does like the photos I took of husband dropping to the ground and then crawling “home” while the women who were observing can be seen laughing in the background.
🙂 My husband told me that he hasn’t needed anyone to wash grass stains out of his clothes for more than 40 years.
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Plumbing: I still have the airlock in the kitchen sink so no hot water there.
However, I realized if i might have a plumber come, what else should I have him do.??
I have always wanted a double sink, so I think that I will measure and see if one will fit. Plus I have been waiting to move my washing machine into the entryway, just outside the front door with still an outside door there. and I have needed a new washer on the bathroom cold water tap for several years. I have no idea if our plumbers have the time for all this or what it would cost, but it is wonderful to think of getting these things done.
Do you suppose I would have to clean out under the kitchen sink if they were coming to replace it???? 🙂 😦
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😦 Hail
😦 Dents in all the vehicles; ours, daughter’s and niece’s.
😦 😦 Garden is trashed – will probably not recover.
🙂 No broken windows or people or animals hurt
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Um, yes on the sink. Sometimes the pipes need adjusting.
🙂 Lovely day for us.
:-)Daughter is home for a couple days to celebrate her birthday. Finally went to bed after being up 29 straight hours. Night shift isn’t a good fit for her.
🙂 she received a mom-crying letter of recommendation for med school. After a paragraph talking about how brilliant she was, the professor wrote two paragraphs praising her character.
Parenting doesn’t come more blessed than that.
😦 Stargazer still getting lots of rejections. We’re just in from a dinner (discussing CR’s mission trip to Nicaragua in 10 days, another reason she’s here) and I got three leads on work for him.
The kids really should remember folks at church love them and are willing to help . . .
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Seventeen year old son is off on his adventure to China. Should be fun. I hope he remembered to leave his knives at home.
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They’ll relieve him of his knives. Not to worry.
The SS lesson didn’t go well today. Too many topics in one lesson.
I did close with this, which might be good for all of us to understand.
“Bottom line: I don’t claim to understand the book of Revelation. But I do know what it’s about. It gives closure. We have 65 books that tell us what God’s plan for us is, but none of them give closure until we come here. This book explains what Paul meant in Ephesians 1:9-10.
Here, Paul explains the Book of Revelation in two verses. “.
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Ephesians sums it all up for me.
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That was SS lesson # 1191. I don’t know if that’s accurate. I’m going by the number of lines on my word document.
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Sorry to hear about the loss, Kare. It is frustrating to put in all of that work and then watch it wiped out in a single hail storm. For me, it is chickens and turkeys and guineas. I did not even put in a garden this year. A few tomatoes, a bit of corn, some peppers, a handful of herbs. The vermin have taken care of just about all of it. Cats might consider catching mice and voles and gophers rather than baby birds. But then, we participate in our own demise. The rattler had two mice in its stomach.
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Way too hot here. ;(
I was often worried about my mother driving places. She was lost once, when there was a detour, but she always made it home. She also only drove to places that were very familiar. Still, it is worrying. That is one reason I am glad she no longer drives.
We did worry when my dad died and she moved to my brother’s house, that she may become even more confused. That did not happen, however. She seems better than she had for years. I think there was a lot of worry taken off her shoulder’s.
There are so many difficult decisions to make. 😦
I was blessed to see my dad’s faithfulness.
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Kathaleena thank you for sharing that. I learned a lot from my stepmother when my father was dying. They had separated but had never filed for divorce. Once they were in different houses they started dating again. She could have walked away but she stepped back in and took care of him. She sheltered me and prepared me from and for what was coming.
I have since said that if anything ever happened to my ex husband, I would take care of him to keep BG from having to do it.
Yes, there are many hard decisions in life.
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Kim – Believe it or not, it may be more of a blessing to have BG help in that situation, as much as she is able. She will learn & grow from it, & maybe even learn to trust God in a deeper way through it. And she will have nothing to regret when it is over. (But may this not happen for many, many years yet.)
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But that is sweet of you to feel that way. 🙂
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